Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales was a keynote speaker at CSI’s Annual Conference, held November 6–8, 2006, in Orlando, Florida.
[2] CSI is perhaps best known for the annual CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey that it began to conduct in 1996 in collaboration with the San Francisco Federal Bureau of Investigation's Computer Intrusion Squad and researchers from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
The 15th annual survey, which turned out to be the last, was released in 2011, and is available to the general public at Information Week.
CSI staff, including Richard Power, testified as expert witnesses before United States Senate committee hearings.
As of September 2014, the original CSI website returns a 404 File Not Found error.